Recently I've been working on HBASE-27359 together with some other folks in the community(Nick, Andrew, Guanghao, etc.). After landing some important improvements, such as HBASE-27434, HBASE-27442 and more, now we are ready to make our release scripts able to publish binaries for hadoop3.
https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/4856 So here, I wonder if we can quickly put up RCs for 2.5.2, with hadoop3 binaries and maven artifacts, so our users in the community can test and use them, report problems. And once we successfully released 2.5.2 with hadoop3 releases, we can merge the PR for HBASE-27359 back, so later the release managers can easily publish binaries and maven artifacts with hadoop3 when making new releases. Thanks.
